Tokyo Exchange Aims
To Be a Global Player

TOKYO -- If Moriyuki Iwanaga can keep up his grueling travel schedule, this city may become the home of Asia's dominant stock market.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange is aggressively courting companies from elsewhere in the region, enticing them to list on the exchange, and Mr. Iwanaga is leading the campaign. Since taking the job last summer, the 44-year-old has visited China once a month to drum up interest in Tokyo -- already home to the...